Striking gold!

So my dearling fiance once worked with this guy named Ben Coleman. Have you watched "America's Toughest Jobs" yet? Yep, he's the carpenter with the dreads. Jonathan sent me an excited text message, "The show Ben's in is on tonight!" I decided to set the DVR and save it for him. My poor lovie does not have cable at his own apartment. I will tell you, in person, Ben does not seem so babyfaced. I was taken aback a wee bit. Maybe I just get distracted by those dreads. He's really such a sweet, nice guy in real life. Root for him to win! Anywho. This item of the day is in Ben's honor, who today was debuted as a prospector! He and his competition were in Alaska panning for gold!
So what you need is a gold panning kit. http://www.goldfeverprospecting.com/gopakitdeset.html It's about $50 but come on, it's deluxe! Now, I didn't watch the whole episode, because I'm still feeling lousy and have every intention of sleeping once I'm done updating for you fine people. But when I left Ben wasn't doing so well with finding gold. Let's hope he does better and comes up with a fabulous nugget. :)

And on my first day of freedom..

Of course I've been awake since midnight, waking up with a fever of 102 degrees. It's much better now, thank you for your concern. I mostly lazed about on the couch watching movies and reading my autographed copy of "Surfers Code" by Shaun Tomson. I also worked a little on a DIY project for my love's house. So the item of the day is dually appropriate.

It looks like one of those bags you fill with ice for when you get knocked on the head, or maybe a hot water bottle for horrible crampy days. It is however a pincushion! You can get it here: http://www.shopplasticland.com/store/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=P71025001&Category_Code=Gifts for less than $9! I enjoy it because it looks like you'll pop it if you stick it with a pin, but really it's full of foam quite ready to be stabbed to oblivion! So it won't do you any good if you really are sick, but for your own little sewing projects it's a perfectly fun device!